Category: Vol 14 Edition 2

Funding to widen access to naloxone
In February 2017, Victorian Minister for Mental Health the Hon Martin Foley MP announced initiatives to improve access naloxone and strengthen support for overdose survivors.
The Victorian Government allocated $1.3 million ...

Shayne Kilford and Fiona Vanhalen volunteered at the Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council (NTAHC) as a way of giving back for the help they received.
Their good deeds turned into full-time jobs that both love ...

Amid concerns Australia is about to be caught up in the worldwide increase in opioid deaths, the NSW Health Department has funded a pilot project on the feasibility of Needle and Syringe Program workers dispensing ...

Stuart Loveday
The new direct-acting antiviral (DAA) hepatitis C treatments have been touted as a miracle cure for people living with hepatitis C. But it will be NSPs – and NSP workers – who will do ...

The Western Sydney Local Health District has been running a liver clinic service at its Mount Druitt and Blacktown Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) since May last year.
Ashley Ubrihien, HIV and Related Programs Unit Manager ...

Its street name is “China White”. Fentanyl, and its analogues (compounds that resemble fentanyl in structure) are rising, relative newcomers to the opioid market. They carry a lethal potency and are dramatically more powerful than ...

Image: Bart McGill
A new program developed by Penington Institute aims to educate workers in secondary NSPs and other health services to reduce the harms for clients who inject ice.
Injecting ice in the Country includes 10 ...

In 2015, the Australian Government Department of Health engaged the Kirby Institute to develop a Needle and Syringe Program National Minimum Data Collection (NSP NMDC) to support the National Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually ...